Birdsong

The ambitious restaurant from Chris Bleidorn (Benu, Atelier Crenn, Saison, Alinea) is built around a custom wood-burning oven. Birdsong pays homage to heritage cooking techniques of the past, with a playfully refined and thoughtful menu that highlights the connection between city and nature, offering a menu that pulls pristine ingredients from Northern California to Alaska. Preserving fundamental cooking techniques of the past in a contemporary setting, Birdsong utilizes ancient cooking methods such as open fire, smoke, dry-aging meat, and experimentation with a variety of fermenting techniques. The dishes showcase the bounty of the West Coast with key ingredients like cold water shellfish, wild game, berries, mushrooms, and other seasonal ingredients. Chef and Owner Chris Bleidorn says, “The Birdsong experience can be summed up in a quote by naturalist writer Michael Frome, ‘Each succeeding generation accepts less and less of the real thing because it has no way of understanding what has been lost.’”

Birdsong

The ambitious restaurant from Chris Bleidorn (Benu, Atelier Crenn, Saison, Alinea) is built around a custom wood-burning oven. Birdsong pays homage to heritage cooking techniques of the past, with a playfully refined and thoughtful menu that highlights the connection between city and nature, offering a menu that pulls pristine ingredients from Northern California to Alaska. Preserving fundamental cooking techniques of the past in a contemporary setting, Birdsong utilizes ancient cooking methods such as open fire, smoke, dry-aging meat, and experimentation with a variety of fermenting techniques. The dishes showcase the bounty of the West Coast with key ingredients like cold water shellfish, wild game, berries, mushrooms, and other seasonal ingredients. Chef and Owner Chris Bleidorn says, “The Birdsong experience can be summed up in a quote by naturalist writer Michael Frome, ‘Each succeeding generation accepts less and less of the real thing because it has no way of understanding what has been lost.’”